Service Learning Reflection Paper: GIFT

Service learning reflection paper Name: Institution: Course: Tutor name: Date: October 6, 2013 Service learning reflection paper Introduction The Chaminade University of Hawaii has a service-learning program that focuses on increasing understanding of health or nutrition challenges across different populations in a community, importance of nutrition and nutrition education, and the role of the nurse as an educator in the community…

Introduction

The service-learning project, its location, and the dates My service-learning project involved awareness creation on self-care. The project assumed an educator role of nursing and focused on the community’s potential to prevent and manage diseases and infections. Orem’s theory of self care, with the core assumption that people should be self reliant and be in charge of care provision to themselves and to people around them, formed the basis of the project. The theory also states that an individual’s awareness of possible threats to health is important to behavioral change towards self-reliant care (Santarosa, n.d). The project assumed an educator role in which I taught members of the Kapiolani Community college Farmers’ Market Gift the significance of background knowledge on diseases and available control measures for prevention and control. With focus on chronic diseases such as cardiovascular complications, I taught the members the role of stress, eating habits, and exercise on preventing the complications and managing symptoms among patients. The education role also involved creating awareness of the diseases’ symptoms (Utley, 2010; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). ...

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